Hospital’s standard of care hits targets

WORTHING Hospital has been praised for the level of care it offers to patients.

Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission assessed the A&E department and orthopaedic services during an unannounced visit on December 10.

They spoke to nine patients, who were all complimentary about the care that they had received, as well as one relative of a patient, and 16 members of staff.

One patient said: “The nurses are fantastic, they are gentle as you would expect them to be. They are very caring”.

Another said: “They are marvellous here, I couldn’t ask for better”.

The visit focussed on five key areas, respecting and involving people who use services, care and welfare of people who use services, cleanliness and infection control, staffing and assessing and monitoring the quality of service provision.

Each of these areas was deemed to be satisfactory, as they were when the Care Quality Commission was last inspected in July, 2012.

The report said: “We found that records were very well completed and provided comprehensive evidence that patients had care delivered according to their preferences and needs.

“They showed that the multidisciplinary team worked together to meet the needs of patients.

“The individual care pathways seen had been completed appropriately and individual risk assessments were updated as necessary.

“Rehabilitation pathways ensured that patients were encouraged and supported to regain their levels of independence, as far as was possible. This meant that patients experienced care, treatment and support that met their needs and protected their rights.

“We found that the wards had sufficient numbers of staff.

“Patients told us that there were enough staff to meet with their care needs in a timely way. We found that the hospital was clean and that infection control was taken seriously.

“We also found that the hospital had systems in place to monitor the quality of the service that they provided to patients.”

Chief executive of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, Marianne Griffiths, said: “This report sends a clear message that staff at Worthing Hospital are skilled, caring, committed, and take a real pride in the work they do.

“The inspectors turned up unannounced, took a long and hard look at the way patients were being cared for, and concluded that standards were high.

“Of course, we cannot get everything right every time, but the inspectors found that our staff were well motivated and well informed, and that the trust was working hard to ensure that they get the support they need to provide high quality care.”

A copy of the latest report can be found on the Care Quality Commission website, at www.cqc.org.uk

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Editors' Code of Practice.
If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the
Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the IPSO by
clicking here.

Worthing Herald provides news, events and sport features from the Worthing area. For the best up to date information relating to Worthing and the surrounding areas visit us at Worthing Herald regularly or bookmark this page.

For you to enjoy all the features of this website Worthing Herald requires permission to use cookies.

Find Out More ▼

What is a Cookie?

What is a Flash Cookie?

Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?

About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.

This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.

Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.

The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:

Revenue Science ►

A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.

Google Ads ►

Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.

Digital Analytics ►

This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.

Dart for Publishers ►

This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.

ComScore ►

ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.

Local Targeting ►

Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.

Grapeshot ►

We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.

Subscriptions Online ►

Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.

Add This ►

Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.